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Travel Blogs from Zhangzhou

... Beverley from the Sunshine Coast and Rob and Beverly (yes another one) from Ryde in Sydney. It turned out the two Beverleys had relations in common in Rockhampton – unknown to both of them !! So – old home week !!

Daniel Mallari made a return to the stage tonight and was well received again. Very enjoyable performance.

Tired from our shore travels today so just back to the cabin after the show for a movie / ...

... really nice, on the Pearl River estuary. Well, getting there wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. After a mean bus driver letting another guy at the bus stop on and then driving off before I could get on, I headed back to Yongding for more regular buses. They didn't have any buses until late... so I went to another town an hour or so away. Finally I arrived in Xiamen around 4:30. Visited the awesome Nanputuo Temple, which is a Buddhist temple that is still very ...

... of a hindrance than a help, as many of the roads are not written in, and then some steps up might be drawn in as a road. It took us a long time to realize this, and so it has taken us all three days to get home without getting lost. Luckily, toilets are everywhere, and so getting lost isn't a problem. Locals have set up 'restaurants' in their little courtyards, and so there is always somewhere to eat. Seafood is the speciality here, and so that's what we have eaten. Oyster omelets, ...

... side streets where Gillian found a number of shopping bargains - high quality, very fashionable things at 'only in China' prices. Interestingly the top global name brands have stores on the main streets, are coveted by the increasingly well off Chinese but prices are as much or more in North America - while the side streets offer very good quality at significantly better prices. Before heading back to the boat we took the time to join them at one of ...

... actually cross the road, well that was fun!!! We managed to not be run down by pushbikes, motorbikes, cars, taxis, buses and trucks!! And I forgot all the pedestrians that just barge through anyway! Once we got to the Temple entrance, our tour leader said we could either do our own thing or he will explain along the way so we decided that would be better. The first area had a few ponds and they had fish and so many turtles of all sizes. The first main ...